617 Silent Assassination
The submarine No. 419 arrived about 2 days late off the coast of Jiaodong. Of course, the target plane that was tracked had long since disappeared, so the drone was sent to investigate Weihai, Yantai, Tanggu and other ports, and soon found the same type of seaplane in Tanggu Port.
Tianjin was an important town controlled by the Japanese in North China, and to some extent very close to Shanghai, where the Japanese army had just accepted the British and French colonies, and would soon drive the Italians away, thus completely occupying this port city, turning it into a base of supplies and labor that radiated North China, and the materials looted throughout North China were loaded and transported to the mainland.
Due to the destruction of the concession, the military forces lurking here were swept away, and Tianjin, which was once turbulent, has now become one of the most entrenched cities in North China by Japanese puppet forces. From the perspective of infiltration, one advantage of this area over Shanghai is that the 419 can directly hide nearby and carry out support, rather than hiding in Hangzhou Bay, which is far away, as in Shanghai, because nuclear submarines cannot enter the Huangpu River after all.
Lin Xiuxuan was not in a hurry to land, first of all, he began to collect ground intelligence and enemy communications through drones, and of course he also listened to local radio stations to grasp the customs and customs. But so far, there is one thing that everyone still does not understand, that is, who exactly was brought on this plane? This is the first thing that needs to be addressed after landing.
The drone found that except for the Italian Concession, which still retains the fence, the rest of the fence walls have been removed. The denser area of the Japanese army was the Haiguangsi Barracks in the Japanese Concession, which was once the headquarters of the North China garrison army, and at least one or two thousand troops were still retained, and it was obvious that this place was the most dangerous place in the whole of Tianjin. He speculated that Kagesa might have taken refuge near this place if he had brought the traveler ashore. But to find it, it's also a needle in a haystack. It seems that the Japanese concession is laying out the streets, and what kind of activity does it seem?
A few hours later, Qin Xiaosu intercepted a telegram sent by the Japanese army headquarters in Haiguang Temple, and three days later, on August 15, the future Japanese surrender day, just in time for the Japanese residents Kanda Festival, the Japanese concession will take advantage of this small festival to hold a meeting to congratulate the victory of the Nanyang army, and the Japanese generals and important members of the puppet government in North China will all participate.
Qin Xiaosu intercepted part of the list, which had been approved by the headquarters of the garrison army a few days ago, and a list of people who could not participate because of the war in North China. It seems that there are hundreds of officers at or above the level of Shaozuo, Tang Huimin, a representative of the Wang puppet government in Nanjing, and the puppet government that actually controls North China: Wang Kemin, chairman of the North China Political Affairs Committee, will attend, and hundreds of unscrupulous traitors of all sizes will come. The scale is really not small. But there was no name in it that they wanted. Of course, because the list is set for many days, it is naturally impossible to have the names of new arrivals, but according to the nature of Kagesa Zhenzhao's spy, if he is there, such a lively scene should not be absent.
Since there is a ready-made gathering of ugly people, it can't be missed, Lin Xiuxuan roughly has a plan of action, naturally he can't touch the gold from the poor countryside to the bottom of Shanghai like he did in Shanghai, this time he has to go straight to the point. As for the specific plan of action, he can still study it in detail, because there are still a few days left.
Northern Myanmar. Chu Tingchang joined Xu Chong's troops with his victorious division, and after he left 419, he himself won a great victory without most of his technical support, and there were no casualties (although some were swept away by the flood and disappeared, but they were not counted as battle losses)
But Xu Chong brought him bad news. When his troops flanked, they were pursued by a combat-minded enemy who was experienced in jungle warfare and acted in a manner different from the rest of the 15th Army. Xu Chong just wanted to pass quickly to save Chu Tingchang, so he didn't want to entangle with him, but this enemy actually pursued all night and refused to let go, you must know that Xu Chong's troops were all veterans in the mountains, and the speed of mountain marching far exceeded that of ordinary troops, so he judged that the unit was not like the second mixed brigade with mediocre strength.
It's a pity that there is no Qin Xiaosu eavesdropping, there is no way to know what troops of the enemy are coming up, it is said that the 15th Army should no longer have a strong reserve, and the only cutting-edge unit, the 49th Division, is seriously scattered and has to defend the entire Arakan coast. The troops in other directions were more or less pinned down by the 74th Army in the Songshan salient and could not move at all. It is said that at this time, the Burmese Japanese army was overstretched, like a fat pig with its limbs tied to a bench, and there was no room for movement at all. The Burmese puppet army that could send 10,000 men was expected, but the large number of Japanese troops was indeed suspicious. Later, Xu Chong added that the unit was good at mountain tracking, but it did not seem to be familiar with the local terrain, and at dawn, his unit had a mountain stream against the water to hide its footprints. The enemy was blinded, and sure enough, he was thrown off.
At present, only one platoon of Ma Qiang is left and I don't know where it is, hoping that when they return, they can bring back some news, Chu Tingchang kept calling Ma Qiang, hoping that he could hear it. Chu Tingchang's main advantage at present is only the local terrain. If there are not many enemies and they are adventurous, a favorable position can be introduced to annihilate. Of course, before that, he had to call the US planes to drop supplies, and his ammunition was almost lost, but the food was almost gone.
At this time, Ma Qiang's small troops were at the rear, still chasing Chu Tingchang's troops. His radio station could not communicate with Chu Tingchang, but sometimes he could receive a signal, and of course he would not leak the march route on the radio, but it sounded like he was giving orders to the various reconnaissance units to investigate the details of the pursuit of the Japanese army. It seems that Xu Chong only cared about getting rid of it, and did not turn back to give the enemy a hard bite.
He knew that there was a pursuing Japanese army nearby, as it was common to see traces left in the jungle. The Japanese soldier smoked an Australian Winfield cigarette, used a different bush machete than the other Japanese soldiers, and was armed with a 7.7 mm rifle. The way they moved was so cruel that all the Kachin villages they passed through were razed to the ground, not to mention people, not even a single chicken survived.
This seems to be a new unit transferred from other battlefields, but the number is not very many blind judging by the traces, divided into two groups, one with the Burmese puppet army, about a thousand people (the footprints are mixed with Burmese straw sandals), and the other is completely composed of Japanese troops (the footprints are completely Japanese military boots), reconnaissance in front, the number is smaller.
At noon, Ma Qiang led his men to march to a valley, only to see thousands of vultures hovering in the sky nearby on the mountain beam. Looking at the formation, there should have been a big battle here a day or two ago, but it seems to have deviated from the pursuit route of the Japanese army, closer to the west. He did not believe that the co-captain would choose such a featureless terrain and set up an ambush field from north to south.
Crossing the mountain, he was immediately stunned by what he saw, and although he was mentally prepared to see a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he had never seen what he saw in front of him.
Densely packed corpses, piled up in the mud of the riverbank, piled up into a hill. Apparently left over after the flood waters receded. Most of the corpses began to flatten, their limbs stretched out, and they appeared fangs and claws and round, and countless flies flew around them, forming a black wall. Most of the corpses still have their clothes, and they all look like the corpses of local Burmese puppet soldiers.
He couldn't guess what vicious methods the co-captain had used, maybe it was just a coincidence? He led his troops upstream, to avoid stepping into the foul-smelling stagnant water in which corpses and corpses had been immersed. Of course, this was a bit risky, because it was closer to the Japanese marching route, but he came for this purpose, and his small group made it easier to get rid of the Japanese army.
In the evening, he saw from the mountain a mixed force of Japanese and local armed forces crossing the river in the mountain stream. The Japanese also noticed that the corpses floating in the river from time to time appeared to be a little cautious. Ma Qiang decided to sneak up and act at night.
After nightfall, Ma Qiang single-handedly launched an operation, leaving his troops on a hill to wait. The soldiers all felt that this big man was simply not human, he deliberately took a lot of long detours during the day, and he could still go out alive at night, and he didn't hide outside and squint for a while and come back to make trouble, because a few days ago, Ma Qiang acted alone at night, killed a few spies, and brought back a few gold bars, which smashed everyone. He didn't keep it at all, of course, I don't know if he had a private secret, his backpack is never allowed to be touched by others. is so righteous, which is also the reason why everyone is willing to follow him to work hard although they have complaints about him. I don't know how he made his way through the jungle at night.
Ma Qiang quickly crossed the creek and pursued the enemy. In the distance, he could see a sparkling campfire, apparently an enemy camp. In the evening, he heard the sound of machine guns here, which did not sound like an exchange of fire with the rear guard of Chu Ting.
He quickly approached with the help of his night vision goggles, and found that there was a smoking village in front of him, which had been occupied by the Japanese army. Outside the village, the corpses of villagers were piled up. The Japanese army's Huairou mask in Burma was torn off when it arrived in northern Burma, and in fact, the local puppet army hated the Kachin and Chinese in northern Burma more than the Japanese, and they were more ruthless. The ancestors of the Burmese people established a unified dynasty a long time ago, but the northern peoples never really submitted. After the British came, they made full use of this contradiction and checked each other. Now the Japanese have come and played the same vicious cards, and the revenge of ethnic cleansing has followed.
It looks like the whole village is gone. Chickens could be seen roasting on the bonfires of the Japanese troops not far away, and the corpse of a child who had been stabbed to death by a bayonet was not far away.
The night was surprisingly quiet, and the Japanese soldiers could be heard from a long distance, and even the crackling of the campfire could be heard, so he decided not to use a silenced pistol, and the skillful hand He Ming gave his M1911 a *, but because the gun used the barrel offset lock, it was not suitable for *, and the effect was not good. Well, only a dagger can be used.
Over there, three Japanese soldiers and a local puppet army were passing a bamboo tube to each other, which looked like local rice wine looted from the village, and it looked like they were half-drunk. This location, the farthest from the village, separated by a bush, could not be seen by the other Japanese troops, of course, provided that they did not make a sound at all until the four of them were killed.